@Daojoan Ah, I see my career mistake was not dropping out of college
Update: I went for a walk and was followed by crows. They got snacks.
@ArtifexUmbra Mostly raw peanuts in shell, tossed a respectful distance away. But, a few will land right next to me and hop along with me for awhile
I just discovered that, for probably the past year or two now, Discover has been paying off the balance on my credit card each month if it's under $2.
Turns out that's where my Amazon Web Services bill goes. And most months, when I'm not actively hacking on something, that's just the cost of the S3 bucket where my statically generated blog lives. And that's under about $1.50 most months.
So, Discover has been unintentionally sponsoring my blog for a good while now. And I haven't even posted any promotional content for them!
(also nobody reads my blog because i don't post anything to my blog, so there's also that)
I wonder if I could amass a redundant array of inexpensive Discover cards and charge under $2/month to each from a different cloud provider and get a good infrastructure stew going?
Trying another short live stream on a school night. Let's see if I can get this #rc2014 digital I/O board finished
Also trying out a new playlist of demoscene stuff foraged from the wilds of pouet.net and the YouTubes as background amusement on my stream
Taste the rainbow #rc2014
And here's the Twitch VOD of me finishing the (hopefully working) Digital I/O board for my #rc2014 kit. Oof, looks like my network went down at some point and also lost my wifi mic in the last 20 minutes or so. :flan_shrug:
I am pretty pleased with my new Demoscene playlist, though. I was kinda bopping along to some of the tunes, which makes the whole thing more fun. Hopefully there's no copyright strikes against me or mad haxxors out to get me for the replays
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDUwhtLxLHMBNGm_ekHVu_2e9Ez9ye5Nl
Also, blinkenlights and buttons work in BASIC! #rc2014
10 OUT 0,INP(0)
20 GOTO 10
It’s a cylon party! #rc2014
10 FOR F=0 TO 7
20 OUT 0,2F
30 GOSUB 100
40 NEXT F
50 FOR F=7 TO 0 STEP -1
60 OUT 0,2F
70 GOSUB 100
80 NEXT F
90 GOTO 10
100 FOR X = 1 TO 150 : NEXT X : RETURN
This #rc2014 Digital I/O board takes me back to a bit of nostalgia:
Back in the mid 1980s, when I was 12 or so, I used to hang out at a computer store every weekend. My Mom would just drop me off there while she went off shopping and I'd pester the folks running the place. I guess they liked me well enough, because they let me try out games and tinker with the Commodore machines there.
One day, a friend of the owner came in with a user port expansion board he'd designed. It supported 16 GPIO pins, all accessible from BASIC. He knew I knew BASIC - so he offered me $10 and a cheeseburger to write some code to twiddle an array of LEDs. So, I did that. Wrote dozens of LED sequences - a Cylon scanner, the lights from KITT in Knight Rider, whatever else I could think of.
Later, I went with the guy to a computer trade show where he wanted to try selling the boards. He'd upgraded from LEDs to this giant box of 16 incandescent light bulbs and relays. I was gobsmacked seeing my code literally up in lights as he used it for the demo in the trade show booth! It was bright and obnoxious with the clanky relays, but I think he sold out of all the boards he'd brought with.
I'm definitely gonna need to get a sound card for this #rc2014, after I've run out of cards to build in the kit :thinkhappy:
Shower thought: “52 AIs” listing all the names of current LLM models, sung to the tune of “52 Girls” by the B52s
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jxTBYkI6wmc&pp=ygUINTIgZ2lybHM%3D
possibly tmi on fish burps
@chartier oh man, have you never had fish oil pills before? When I was taking them, I kept having stomach gurgles that resulted in unstoppable burps that smelled like dead fish on a dock
@endomain uggh I hate it because I don't need it but I want it
Removed the #rc2014 cards from the individual cases. The cases are neat but also cumbersome and hide the neato colored PCBs.
Really what I’d like is kind of a transparent or smoked plastic lid to plonk down over the whole thing, like an old floppy disk case
@mavica_again Yeah, that's the part where I have little idea how it would work being closed on all sides. Maybe some kind of stretchy extrusion thing? :blobthinking: I've bent acrylic with a heat tool before (badly) but that's about it
@socketwench Also I hadn't heard of Makerbeam as a thing before! Like, I've seen all the individual parts, but hadn't seen it all put together as a system. Now I just want to get a bunch of it and play like I used to with an Erector set as a kid
@katykaty I would say there's a side that's not "too capitalist", if the efficiency and time saving is aimed at reducing resource use.
That's practically solarpunk, if you consider a computer might be powered from limited sources or consume less of a person's limited time in accomplishing something.
oh, so you're a #startrek fan? name one of their directives
Looks like the export of my Twitch VOD to YouTube worked, yay! Kind of annoyed that Twitch deletes all my VODs after like 90 days, but oh well
Skimmed through the video to make some notes to myself for improvements, next stream. Noticed that I spent a lot of time just kind of slack-jawed staring at the camera, want to do that less :blobsurprised:
I keep thinking, if I manage to do more of this streaming video stuff for awhile, I'd like to self-host some VODs and streams.
But, an analogy to insurance suddenly popped into my head: Hosting my crap in "free" cloud sites means I don't get hit with a huge bill in case, for some reason, the unthinkable happens and folks actually end up wanting to watch my crap.
@RobynNuthall This is the Internet of Things that we want
@jrconlin Hmm, I don't think my hands are that expressive :blobthinking:
Hmm, one of our cats just wandered into my office purring very loudly. She walked up to my leg, headbutted, bit my calf, then strolled back out.
@jrconlin I kinda went through a period of intentional desensitization to my own ugly mug when I started trying to get into streaming a few years ago, I think I look a mess but somehow broadcast it anyway
bluesky self-hosting
Also, this is an interesting Bluesky interop notion that seems obvious in retrospect: Don't just run a PDS by itself, run it as a sidecar of more fully-featured web site. Looks like that's what Micro.blog aims to do
@andybaio I've been bouncing between it and Ice Cubes for a few weeks now, Phanpy is pretty dang great